Table Of Contents Chapter One: Introduction Materials Used In The Study Chapter Two: The Disputed Biography Of Nikolaj Velimirovic And His Changing Public Image 1945-2003 Denigration And Marginalisation: Velimirovic’s Status In Post-War Yugoslavia Apotheosis And Widespread Admiration: Velimirovic’s Status Today Chapter Three: Collective Remembering And Collective Forgetting: Memory Of Nikolaj Velimirovic And The Repression Of Controversy Discursive Dynamic Of Social Forgetting: Repression As Replacement Velimirovic In Dachau: ‘Martyrdom’ As A Replacement Myth The ‘Martyrdom Myth’ In Context: The Narrative Of Velimirovic’s Suffering And The Rise Serbian Nationalism Remembering In Order To Forget: The Martyrdom Myth And Repression The Dynamic Of Everyday Forgetting: Continuity And The ‘Routinisation’ Of Repression Chapter Four: From Repression To Denial: Responses Of The Serbian Orthodox Church To Accusations Of Antisemitism Discourse, Moral Accountability And The Denial Of Prejudice ‘Serbs Have Never Hated The Jews’: Literal Denial Of Antisemitism ‘Parrots’, ‘Idiots’ And ‘The Mummies Of Reason’: Denial And Offensive Rhetoric Comparing Serbs And Croats And The Rhetoric Of ‘Competitive Martyrdom’: Comparative Denial Of Antisemitism National Self-Glorification In A Historical Context Denial Of Antisemitism And The Distancing From ‘Extremism’ ‘We Are Not Antisemites, But…’: Denial And The Rhetoric Of Disclaimers Chapter Five: ‘He Was Merely Quoting The Bible!’: The Denial Of Velimirovic’s Antisemitism Rising Above The Criticisms: Refusal To Engage In Controversy As A Form Of Denial ‘Tiny Mosquitoes’ And The Mighty ‘Eagle’: Who Has The Right To Remember Nikolaj Velimirovic? The Letter From ‘A Jewish Woman’: Bishop Nikolaj As The Saviour Of Jews The Two Kinds Of Antisemitism: The Rhetoric Of Interpretative Denial Repeating The Word Of God: Authority Of The Gospels And The Reification Of Antisemitic Discourse ‘Then we are all antisemities!’: ‘Anti-judaism’ and Orthodox Christian identity Questionable Boundaries Between Anti-Judaism And Antisemitism Deicidal Justification Of Jewish Suffering: Holocaust As Divine Retribution Chapter Six: Antisemitism As Prophecy: Social Construction Of Velimirovic’s Sanctity The First Stage Of The Campaign For Canonization: The Making Of A Religious ‘Cult’ Canonization In The Orthodox Church And The Need For Divine Confirmation Of Sanctity Finding The ‘Right’ Miracle: Incorruptibility Of Remains And Miraculous Icons The Bishop Who Came ‘Face To Face With The Living God’: Velimirovic And The Miracle Of Epiphany Velimirovic As A ‘Prophet’: The Construction Of The ‘Serbian Jeremiah’ Chapter Seven Conclusion References